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Bernice Elizabeth Fincher
Sep 21, 2007
Bernice Elizabeth Fincher, 96, of New Philadelphia, died Friday, September 21, 2007 in Country Club Retirement Campus at Dover.A daughter of the late Joseph and Emma (Metzger) Beitzel, Bernice was born May 19, 1911 at New Philadelphia.Bernice attended the former Gribble School at Auburn Township and on July 14, 1928, she married Kadez “Doc” Fincher. Together, Bernice and Kadez raised...
Roland William Becker
Sep 20, 2007
Roland “Red” William Becker, 97, of Lakewood, Colorado, and formerly of Dover and New Philadelphia, died Thursday, September 20, 2007 in Villa Manor Care Center at Lakewood, Colorado. Born January 1, 1910 in Dover Township, he was the son of the late Albert and Clara Kreiter Becker.After finishing his formal education, Red began his professional career, having worked in the...
Marian Jean Fragasse
Sep 20, 2007
Marian Jean Fragasse, 84, of Navarre and formerly of New Philadelphia, died Thursday, September 20, 2007 in Altercare of Navarre.A daughter of the late Foster and Merle (Graff) Stonebrook, Marian was born February 18, 1923 at New Philadelphia.Marian graduated in 1940 from New Philadelphia High School. Being the avid Quaker fan she was, Marian was proud of the fact she...
Johnny G. Shoemaker
Sep 20, 2007
Johnny G. Shoemaker, age 71, of New Philadelphia, died peacefully early Thursday morning, September 20, 2007 in Union Hospital at Dover. Born Halloween Day, (October 31) 1935, at Morgan Mines West Virginia, he was a son of the late Juanita Carpenter Norman and the late Austin Shaver. Johnny was reared in West Virginia and here in the Tuscarawas Valley as...
Patricia A. Tornabene
Sep 20, 2007
Patricia A. Tornabene, age 73, of Dover, died peacefully early Thursday morning, September 20, 2007, in Union Hospital. Born at the Bronx of New York City on November 14, 1933, she was a daughter of the late Robert and Mary Chadwick Milligan. Pat graduated from a parochial high school in New York and went to work as a clerk in...
Carol Ann Mathias
Sep 19, 2007
Carol Ann Mathias of Columbus and formerly of New Philadelphia, died Wednesday, September 19, 2007 in Mt. Carmel East Hospital at Columbus.Born March 5, 1933 in New Philadelphia, she was a daughter of the late David Hamilton and Nell Cotham Hamilton Gaither. After graduating from New Philadelphia High School in 1951, she attended Akron City School of Nursing before marrying...
Arthur D. Scott
Sep 18, 2007
Arthur “Art” D. Scott, 80, of Stone Creek, went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, September 18, 2007, following a sudden illness.A son of the late William L. and Ovia Davison Scott, Art was born on May 11, 1927, in his family’s residence at Mineral City.He was a World War II veteran, was retired from the Stone Creek Brick Company,...
Michael Eugene Fletcher
Sep 17, 2007
Michael Eugene Fletcher, 42, of Mineral City, died Monday, September 17, 2007 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.A son of James and Rosanne (Maydak) Fletcher, Mike was born May 24, 1965 at Canton, Ohio.Mike was employed at Green Valley Golf Course at New Philadelphia where he worked on the grounds crew for the last five years. He was an...
Ruth E Burrier
Sep 16, 2007
Ruth E. Burrier, 86, of Newcomerstown and formerly of Oldtown Valley, died Sunday, September 16, 2007 in Riverside Manor Nursing Home in Newcomerstown.Born December 3, 1920 in Newcomerstown, she was a daughter of the late Sigel and Edith Shaffer John. After completing her formal education at Newcomerstown, she spent the remainder of her lifetime as a homemaker, caring for her...
Donald Robert Kinsey
Sep 15, 2007
Donald Robert Kinsey, 95, of Mineral City died Saturday, September 15, 2007, in Union Hospital at Dover.Born April 19, 1912, he was the son of the late Robert Christian and Elzanna Maude Carr Kinsey. He was raised on a family farm in Union Township, two miles east of Dennison. He attended grade school at Pleasant Valley and Healea schools and...
Mary H Kilian
Sep 14, 2007
Mary H. Kilian, of Park Village Health Care Center at Dover, formerly of New Philadelphia, died September 14, 2007.Born August 5, 1918, at Morgantown, West Virginia, she was a daughter of the late Bertha Clay Justus Rhoades and Albert David Rhoades. On May 8, 1940, she married Joe Kilian, who died August 1, 1989. They had two children, twins Paul...
Mary Carmella Mroczkowski
Sep 13, 2007
Mary Carmella Mroczkowski, 84, of Dover, died early Thursday morning, September 13, 2007, in Park Village Health Care Center at Dover following a lengthy illness. Mary’s passing came one day before her 67th wedding anniversary with her husband Pete.A daughter of the late James and Carmella Chitti, Mary was born July 16, 1923 at Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.Mary attended Midvale High School...
Joyce Baum
Sep 12, 2007
Joyce Baum, age 81, of Dover, died early Wednesday morning, September 12, 2007, in her residence. Born at Dover, February 4, 1926, Joyce was a daughter of the late Richard Plummer and Rose Webb Plummer. Joyce was a 1944 graduate of Dover High School and throughout her life, kept in touch with classmates who met over the years for mini-reunions....
Richard Guy Robinson
Sep 12, 2007
Richard Guy Robinson II, 54, of Dover, died Wednesday, September 12, 2007 in his home following a courageous battle with cancer.A son of Patricia L. (Heimann) Robinson-Woodard and the late Richard Guy Robinson, Richard was born January 6, 1953 at Alexandria, Virginia.Richard was a veteran of the United States Army who enjoyed many different hobbies. Some of his favorite hobbies...
Joan Booth
Sep 9, 2007
Joan Booth, 80, of New Philadelphia, died Sunday morning, September 9, 2007 in Union Hospital at Dover, Ohio following a brief illness.A daughter of the late Earl and Priscilla (Bean) Golder, Joan was born August 10, 1927 at Barnhill, Ohio.She was a 1945 graduate of Midvale High School. Joan was a homemaker who made certain that her family was well...
Marian Alice Hupp
Sep 5, 2007
Marian HuppMarian Alice Hupp, 91, of Dover, died Wednesday, September 5, 2007, one day shy of her 92nd birthday, at Briar Hill Health Campus in North Baltimore, Ohio.Marian was born September 6, 1915, in Union Twp., Tuscarawas County to the late George Smitley and Grace Seibert Smitley Krieger.She married Brady F. Hupp, Sr. on March 9, 1935 and together they...
Alpha Leroy Schwartz
Sep 4, 2007
Alpha Leroy Schwartz, 81, a life resident of New Philadelphia, died Tuesday, September 4, 2007, in his residence.He was born June 30, 1926, at New Philadelphia, along with his twin sister, the late Annie Glazier to Soloman E. and Eva Wolfe Schwartz. He attended New Philadelphia schools.Leroy served in Germany during WWII, was a lifetime member of the Loyal Order...
Margaret A. Todd
Sep 3, 2007
Margaret A. “Peggy” Todd, 68, of Ormond Beach, Florida and formerly of New Philadelphia, died Monday, September 3, 2007 at her home.A daughter of the late Walter and Oella (Dinger) Todd, Peggy was born May 6, 1939 at New Philadelphia, Ohio.Peggy was a 1957 graduate of New Philadelphia High School. In 1980 Peggy moved to Ormond Beach, Florida where she...
Trina Suzanne Kuczirka
Sep 2, 2007
Thirty-six year old Trina Kuczirka woke up each morning in the past few years to the happiest day of her life. The loving wife and mother enjoyed her work at Akron City Hospital as a surgical tech, delighted in caring for her horse Cody, and together with her husband Pete, was anticipating the birth of a son in December. Trina...
Ruth C. Stearns
Sep 1, 2007
Ruth Charlene (Morris) Moore Stearns, of Dover, passed away unexpectedly at home, September 1, 2007. She was born in New Philadelphia on March 23, 1927 to the late Harry B. Morris and Amelia (Gribble) Morris Elliott.Ruth was a Midvale High School alumnus, a member of the Dover #515 Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles, the New Philadelphia Order of the...
